Re: problems with running Gnome applications
Belated thanks Dave (for reminding me to do what the bluefish website said but I forgot to do :-) On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:32:55AM -, Dave Korn wrote: Alessandro Lendaro wrote: i cant execute bluefish ( Bad system call message) etcetera. This is a http://cygwin.com/acronyms#WAG, but have you got CYGWIN=server set in your environment, and are you running the cygserver? That's a pretty common cause of Bad system call errors. Of course, I would already have known the answer to those two questions if you had sent your cygcheck output as an attachment, like it says at http://cygwin.com/problems.html ! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Re: problems with running Gnome applications
Christopher Faylor wrote: That said, however, we don't provide support for cygwinports. You downloaded that from another site and there is another mailing list devoted to it. The fact that it has the word cygwin in it doesn't mean that many people here are familiar with it. Well, my problem with Bluefish was solved by installing cygwin-server, which happens to be part of the official cygwin distribution. Thank you for the directions, anyway. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
problems with running Gnome applications
hi everybody. I'd like to have a clue on how can get Gnome and Gtk applications work on cygwin. It would be cool to have a clean and as complete as possible tutorial/wiki with infos about installing Gnome and applicationso n cygwin and make them work. I got many problems with gconfd (errors like this: No database available to save your configuration: Unable to store a value at key '/apps/evince/sidebar_size', as the configuration server has no writable databases. There are some common causes of this problem: 1) your configuration path file /etc/gconf/2/path doesn't contain any databases or wasn't found 2) somehow we mistakenly created two gconfd processes 3) your operating system is misconfigured so NFS file locking doesn't work in your home directory or 4) your NFS client machine crashed and didn't properly notify the server on reboot that file locks should be dropped. If you have two gconfd processes (or had two at the time the second was launched), logging out, killing all copies of gconfd, and logging back in may help. If you have stale locks, remove ~/.gconf*/*lock. Perhaps the problem is that you attempted to use GConf from two machines at once, and ORBit still has its default configuration that prevents remote CORBA connections - put ORBIIOPIPv4=1 in /etc/orbitrc. As always, check the user.* syslog for details on problems gconfd encountered. There can only be one gconfd per home directory, and it must own a lockfile in ~/.gconfd and also lockfiles in individual storage locations such as ~/.gconf i cant execute bluefish ( Bad system call message) etcetera. I have Win 2003 server and latest Cygwin/Cygwin ports installation. Thanks, Alessandro -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
RE: problems with running Gnome applications
Alessandro Lendaro wrote: i cant execute bluefish ( Bad system call message) etcetera. This is a http://cygwin.com/acronyms#WAG, but have you got CYGWIN=server set in your environment, and are you running the cygserver? That's a pretty common cause of Bad system call errors. Of course, I would already have known the answer to those two questions if you had sent your cygcheck output as an attachment, like it says at http://cygwin.com/problems.html ! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: problems with running Gnome applications
Dave Korn wrote: This is a http://cygwin.com/acronyms#WAG, but have you got CYGWIN=server set in your environment, and are you running the cygserver? That's a pretty common cause of Bad system call errors. Of course, I would already have known the answer to those two questions if you had sent your cygcheck output as an attachment, like it says at http://cygwin.com/problems.html ! that is what i was talking about, a simple and clean tutorial that shows what needs to be done for setting a working cygwin + gnome2 environment without having to read hundreds of hard-to-find FAQ/Docs... i can't say I have much spare time to do that. That's also one of the puroposes of this ng, I think. Thanks for the healp anyway, Alessandro -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: problems with running Gnome applications
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 03:23:42PM +0100, Alessandro Lendaro wrote: Dave Korn wrote: This is a http://cygwin.com/acronyms#WAG, but have you got CYGWIN=server set in your environment, and are you running the cygserver? That's a pretty common cause of Bad system call errors. Of course, I would already have known the answer to those two questions if you had sent your cygcheck output as an attachment, like it says at http://cygwin.com/problems.html ! that is what i was talking about, a simple and clean tutorial that shows what needs to be done for setting a working cygwin + gnome2 environment without having to read hundreds of hard-to-find FAQ/Docs... i can't say I have much spare time to do that. I wouldn't think that there would be any reason to tell us about your spare time constraints if time is in short supply. It's probably better to just cut your losses. That's also one of the puroposes of this ng, I think. Answering questions about the cygwin distribution is one of the reasons for this mailing list but it is not unreasonable to expect that the person asking questions will be willing to spend some time reading the easy-to-find documentation at the web site so that, when they ask a question, they do so in a manner that is more likely to provide them with effective help. That said, however, we don't provide support for cygwinports. You downloaded that from another site and there is another mailing list devoted to it. The fact that it has the word cygwin in it doesn't mean that many people here are familiar with it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: problems with running Gnome applications
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alessandro Lendaro wrote: It would be cool to have a clean and as complete as possible tutorial/wiki with infos about installing Gnome and applicationso n cygwin and make them work. Installing GNOME programs on Cygwin is no different than other packages, and running them should be no different then on *NIX (except that the full desktop doesn't work yet). I got many problems with gconfd (errors like this: 1) gconfd-2 should not be started manually; programs that need it will spawn it automatically. 2) AFAIK on Cygwin, gconfd-2 isn't very good about deleting its lock file; try the following before starting your GNOME app again: $ gconftool-2 --shutdown $ ps -a [make sure gconfd-2 isn't running, else /bin/kill it] $ rm -fr $TMP/gconfd-* i cant execute bluefish ( Bad system call message) You need to update gtk2-x11-runtime from the distro to 2.6.10-1. (There's another solution, but this is the simplest.) I have Win 2003 server and latest Cygwin/Cygwin ports installation. I haven't tried GNOME (or Cygwin FTM) on Win2003, so I have no idea how it works there. Please note that I've set the Reply-To: header on this message. Further questions about Cygwin Ports packages need to be directed to the cygwin-ports-general list, not here. Yaakov Cygwin Ports -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDxpMzpiWmPGlmQSMRAqe5AKDfVBBz0iRdsKXfAnMjqnnjh8mK3gCgyydm gaFdNWa2RekpJX/HvKsxQB8= =azj4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
